French PM says refugee crisis threatening idea of EU
A French riot policeman stops migrants in a field near
Calais, France, as migrants gather in the hopes of attempting to board lorries
and making their way across the Channel to Britain .
LONDON (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said
Friday Europe cannot cope with the number of refugees arriving at its borders
and that the influx was threatening the idea of the European Union.
"We cannot say or accept that all refugees ...can be
welcomed in Europe," Valls told the BBC, adding that the migrant crisis
would threaten to destabilize the European Union and that stronger control was
needed to exercised at its borders.
Valls also said Europe needed to send a different message to
the one issued by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called for her
European partners to take on quotas of refugees.
"Germany is faced with a major challenge. We need to
help Germany. But the first message we need to send now is with the greatest of
firmness is to say that we will not welcome all the refugees in Europe,"
said Valls.
"Because a message that says come, you will be welcome,
provokes major shifts," he added.
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